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Author: John Gorevan
Publisher: Tempus Pub Limited
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780752427591
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, John Gorevan traces the history of some of Glasgow's most well-known and historic pubs and their proprietors, and discusses their role as meeting places for some of the city's most important, as well as most regular, citizens.
Author: Rudolph Kenna
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
Published: 2002-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781903238004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An updated edition of the companion to over 200 of Glasgow's pubs which encompasses the old, the traditional and the newer style bar/cafes. Biographical details of each are accompanied by a photograph (often with interiors) and ratings for entertainment, wine selection, food and ale.
Author: Mass Observation
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0571280846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mass Observation was founded in 1937 with the aim of researching the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. One of its best-loved publications is The Pub and the People (1943), a unique study of one of Britain's best-loved pastimes, describing how people behaved in pubs, what and how much they drank, and the decor and layout of the average pre-war alehouse. Alongside sociological interest it offers amusing insights into an era when supping pints was only for the roughest customers, and beer was considered helpful not only to general health ('There is no bad ale, so Grandma said') but also (contra the porter in Macbeth) to the act of love. 'The authors of this book have unearthed much curious information.' George Orwell, Listener 'Anyone with an interest in the history of beer and pubs in Britain ought to read it.' Boak and Bailey's Beer Blog
Author: Anthony Cooke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-07-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1474400132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines continuity and change in the functions of Scottish drinking places.
Author: Anthony Cooke
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-07-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1474407366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels. Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year. These and other historical issues such as temperance, together with contemporary issues, like the liberalization of licensing laws and the changing nature of Scottish pubs, are discussed in this fascinating book. The book is bought up to the present day by a case study of present day licensees, based on interviews with a range of licensees across Scotland, looking at their experience of the trade and how it has changed in their working lives.
Author: Rudolph Kenna
Publisher: Neil Wilson Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781897784488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a companion to over 150 of Glasgow's pubs which encompass the old, the traditional and the newer style pubs. Details on each pub accompany a photo of the same with listings of amenities, ales and spirit selection. A full introduction to the historical aspects of the city's hostelries is accompanied by archive photographs although the essence of the book is modern, to allow today's pub goer, visitor and tourist alike to enjoy the best the city has to offer.
Author: Etta Dunn
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-06-15
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1445638878
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Central Glasgow has changed and developed over the last century.
Author: Scott C. Martin
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2014-12-16
Total Pages: 1674
ISBN-13: 1483331083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alcohol consumption goes to the very roots of nearly all human societies. Different countries and regions have become associated with different sorts of alcohol, for instance, the “beer culture” of Germany, the “wine culture” of France, Japan and saki, Russia and vodka, the Caribbean and rum, or the “moonshine culture” of Appalachia. Wine is used in religious rituals, and toasts are used to seal business deals or to celebrate marriages and state dinners. However, our relation with alcohol is one of love/hate. We also regulate it and tax it, we pass laws about when and where it’s appropriate, we crack down severely on drunk driving, and the United States and other countries tried the failed “Noble Experiment” of Prohibition. While there are many encyclopedias on alcohol, nearly all approach it as a substance of abuse, taking a clinical, medical perspective (alcohol, alcoholism, and treatment). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol examines the history of alcohol worldwide and goes beyond the historical lens to examine alcohol as a cultural and social phenomenon, as well—both for good and for ill—from the earliest days of humankind.
Author: John Cairney
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2020-05-15
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1913025845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a book about Glasgow, but not your everyday history book. Glasgow by the way, but is a contemporary series of essays examining different aspects of Glasgow in a historical and cultural context, revealing a unique, amusing and sometimes critical, perspective of Cairney's beloved city. Those who remember John Cairney's performances and have read his other books will enjoy the insightful anecdotes from Cairney's career.
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108421229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exposes the mechanisms by which conservative Christianity dominated British culture during 1945-65 and their subsequent collapse.
